The DNC eventually issued an apology to Sanders and his supporters “for the inexcusable remarks made over email.” The DNC hack was separate from the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s use of a private server while serving as President Obama’s Secretary of State. Bernie Sanders for the presidential nomination.
The stolen emails, which were published by Wikileaks – whose founder, Julian Assange has long denied they came from Russia – were embarrassing to the party because, among other things, they showed the DNC had favored Clinton during her 2016 primary battles against Sen. The DNC, instead, hired CrowdStrike to perform the analysis.
The FBI allowed the DNC to refuse its request to examine the servers. It is unlikely that Mueller had another source to make his more confident claim about Russian hacking. Henry’s 2017 testimony that there was no “concrete evidence” that the emails were stolen electronically suggests that Mueller was at best misleading in his 2019 final report, in which he stated that Russian intelligence “appears to have compressed and exfiltrated over 70 gigabytes of data from the file server.” “And there might not be evidence of it being exfiltrated, but they would have knowledge of what was in the email. “ somebody was monitoring an email server, they could read all the email,” Henry said. The CrowdStrike president speculated that Russian agents might have taken “screenshots” in real time. Chris Stewart of Utah, Henry offered an explanation of how Russian agents could have obtained the emails without any digital trace of them leaving the server. ♦ Asked directly if he could “unequivocally say” whether “it was or was not exfiltrated out of DNC,” Henry told the committee: “I can’t say based on that.” ♦ “Sir, I was just trying to be factually accurate, that we didn’t see the data leave, but we believe it left, based on what we saw.”
We said that the data left based on the circumstantial evidence. … We didn’t have a sensor in place that saw data leave. ♦ There is circumstantial evidence that that data was exfiltrated off the network. There’s circumstantial evidence but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated.” ♦ “There’s not evidence that they were actually exfiltrated. But in this case it appears it was set up to be exfiltrated, but we just don’t have the evidence that says it actually left.” ♦ “There are times when we can see data exfiltrated, and we can say conclusively. Henry reiterated his claim on multiple occasions: Asked for the date when alleged Russian hackers stole data from the DNC server, Henry testified that CrowdStrike did not in fact know if such a theft occurred at all: “We did not have concrete evidence that the data was exfiltrated from the DNC, but we have indicators that it was exfiltrated,” Henry said. Henry personally led the remediation and forensics analysis of the DNC server after being warned of a breach in late April 2016 his work was paid for by the DNC, which refused to turn over its server to the FBI. The CrowdStrike admissions were released just two months after the Justice Department retreated from its its other central claim that Russia meddled in the 2016 election when it dropped charges against Russian troll farms it said had been trying to get Trump elected. The allegation that Russia stole Democratic Party emails from Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and others and then passed them to WikiLeaks helped trigger the FBI’s probe into now debunked claims of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to steal the 2016 election. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia probe, acknowledged to Congress more than two years ago that it had no concrete evidence that Russian hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee’s server.ĬrowdStrike President Shawn Henry’s admission under oath, in a recently declassified December 2017 interview before the House Intelligence Committee, raises new questions about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller, intelligence officials and Democrats misled the public. Crowdstrike President Shawn Henry: “We just don’t have the evidence …”Īaron Maté – CrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S.
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